New documentary to explore food waste solutions and cost benefits

July 23, 2019

From farm to fork, an astonishing amount of food is wasted that could feed the world’s hungry people four times over.

When documentary filmmaker Karney Hatch started visiting Heart 2 Heart Farms in Sherwood, Oregon, he says he was astounded to witness the five million pounds of food the owners rescue from its trip to landfill every year.

“Even after having visited the farm many times,” he says, “it still takes my breath away to drive up and see 10,000 pounds of fresh nectarines or pallet after pallet of avocados, fresh off the truck.”

And this is just a small fraction of the bigger picture nation- and world-wide. “The scope of the problem is just enormous,” he says.

This gave Hatch the inspiration for a new documentary, “Robin Hoods of the Waste Stream”.